A biaxially textured article includes a rolled and annealed, biaxially textured substrate of a metal having a face-centered cubic, body-centered cubic, or hexagonal close-packed crystalline structure; and an epitaxial superconductor or other device epitaxially deposited thereon.

The United States Government has rights in this invention pursuant to contract no. DE-AC05-84OR21400 between the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. The invention was funded by the Superconductivity Program for Electric Power Systems, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and the DOE Division of Materials Science.